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From: mcantos AT ocean DOT com DOT au (Marcelo Cantos)
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Subject: Re: reading binary I/O with iostream
Date: Wed, 01 May 96 13:03:16 GMT
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In article <Dqnzyr DOT rn AT news DOT dlr DOT de>, thore AT ts DOT go DOT dlr DOT de wrote:
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>Is there a way to persuade "cin" and "cout" to read and write
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>data in binary format (like fwrite and fread) ? None of the books on C++ that I
> have
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>skimmed trough so far have ever mentioned I/O handling of data in binary
> format.

cin and cout are essentially aliases for the console (keyboard and screen), 
which are intrinsically text-based devices. Strictly speaking, it is 
inappropriate to treat them as binary streams.

>Where can I find a *complete* documentation of the standart C++ libraries ? 

Sorry, I don't know.